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1.3 KiB
mew
mew is a efficient dynamic menu for Wayland, an effective port of dmenu to Wayland.
Building
In order to build mew, ensure that you have the following dependencies:
- fcft
- pkg-config
- wayland
- wayland-protocols
- xkbcommon
Afterwards enter the following command to build and install mew (if necessary as root):
make
make install
Usage
See the man page for details.
Comparison
There are other menu programs or dmenu clones for Wayland, but there are a few differences when it comes to accuracy, as mew is a full accurate clone, while differing in the output select option due to the differences between X and Wayland output/monitor design.
- wmenu: A more modern dmenu clone, making it's own design choices (such as appearance and keybindings), not supporting bitmap fonts (Pango), and being fully rewritten from scratch as a fork of dmenu-wl.
- bemenu: Being a dynamic menu library and client program, it is very flexible, but comes at a cost of being unnecessarily complicated and large in codebase.
- emenu: Personally maintained fork of dmenu which adds wayland support, lacking git history. It is what mew hard forked from due to maintainership, consistency, and tidiness.